The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat

1959 · 92 min · EN · NR · 6.8 (28 votes)
Dir. Robert Hamer · Starring Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey, Irene Worth, Pamela Brown, Annabel Bartlett · Music Bronislau Kaper

He took another man's name... lived another man's life... loved another man's woman!

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An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

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A disorienting descent into a life not your own. The film masterfully builds a suffocating atmosphere of dread and existential crisis, leaving you questioning reality and the true nature of identity.

suspensefulatmosphericmelancholicdisorientingsteadyHitchcockianmid-century thrillerEuropean arthouseidentitydeceptionclassdespair
chauffeurfranceupper classdrug addictionmarriage contractmurdercountesslook-alikemistressdeathassumed identitydowagerdrugged drinkenglishman abroadnoblemanrich wifenew lifeyoung daughter